A day ago, Daniel Ball was a free man because the case against him had been dropped by federal authorities in connection with the blanket pardon issued by Insurrectionist-in Chief Donald Trump.
Ball had been charged with federal crimes for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, but was on the verge of going home and no longer having a criminal record.
However, today Ball is back in federal custody and charged with gun crimes, according to Kyle Cheney of Politico, who posted the details on social media.
“A day after his Jan. 6 case was dismissed, Daniel BALL was arrested for pending federal gun charges — the first arrest initiated by the Trump-led Washington Field Office.”
JUST IN: A day after his Jan. 6 case was dismissed, Daniel BALL was arrested for pending federal gun charges — the first arrest initiated by the Trump-led Washington Field Office.
The good news is that Daniel Ball is now back in federal custody and could well be facing 10 years or more in prison. Unless, that is, our felonious head of state decides to pardon this domestic terrorist yet again.
Ever since he first appeared on TV as the star of “The Apprentice” in 2004, Felon-in-Chief Donald Trump has been obsessed with television ratings, constantly bragging that the show was once the top-ranked program in the United States.
However, in the decade and a half since the show, Trump has had trouble drawing an audience, probably because over half of the American viewing public considers him to be a malignant narcissist and obnoxious asshole.
That brings us to Monday and Trump’s second inauguration, which is now destined to go down in history as one of the least watched such events of the past half-century.
According to the Associated Press, the Neilsen Company reported Tuesday that an estimated 24.6 million television viewers tuned in on Monday, the lowest number since former President Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013.
For further comparison, consider that Ronald Reagan managed to draw 41.8 million viewers in 1981 while George W. Bush could only 15.5 million tuned in when George W. Bush took the oath of office for his second term in 2004.
What will be especially galling to Trump is that 33.8 million people saw his predecessor, Joe Biden’s inaugural in 2021 and even Trump’s first inauguration in 2017 garnered the attention of 30.6 million Americans.
Sorry, Donnie, but your “Apprentice” days are long gone and the vast majority of Americans can’t stand the sight of you.
Even though he’s been in the White House for 24 hours, Sex Offender-in-Chief Donald Trump is already stabbing people who helped him get elected in the back.
Such is the case with Vivek Ramaswamy, who was picked to co-chair the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which isn’t a real department because it hasn’t been formally created or funded by Congress, which is required under law.
Politico reported Monday that Ramaswamy has been shown the door, and not in a very friendly manner.
“Just 69 days after Trump announced the team, Ramaswamy is now leaving DOGE and planning to announce a run for Ohio governor next week. Musk’s ability to ice out Ramaswamy, who for a variety of reasons had irked some Republicans in Trump’s circle, is the latest sign of his influence in the incoming administration. And it presages an encore of all of the infighting that marked Trump’s first term.”
“Ramaswamy ‘just burned through the bridges and he finally burned Elon,’ said a Republican strategist close to Trump advisers. ‘Everyone wants him out of Mar-a-Lago, out of D.C.'”
Elon Musk pushed Ramaswamy out, which should come as no surprise because rats placed close to each other almost always wind up fighting to the death, even if they’re from the same sewer.
The main reason Ramaswamy is no longer welcome inside the MAGA tent is because he dared to defend high-tech companies that hire immigrants with in-demand skills, even going so far as to suggest the United States has “venerated mediocrity over excellence.”
Sportswriter Pablo Torre, a former classmate with Ramaswamy at Harvard, discussed Vivek’s rapid rise and fall as part of the Trump team.
“Vivek’s going back to Ohio, where he’s from, to make the through line clear here, from Ohio to Ohio,” Torre observed on MSNBC. “It’s funny, right, the thing that made him persona non grata in Trumpworld was what he tweeted over the holidays. He had this massive treatise on the H-1B visa and how we need to get immigrants from India and from China to compete, because American culture is essentially soft. We value, quote-unquote, the quarterback over the valedictorian, we praise the wrong characters on sitcoms. We didn’t show enough respect to Urkel, literally a thing that he said, and what it revealed was, I think, a deep disdain for the base that Donald Trump had cultivated, and it revealed this fracturing for the first time in public. Really, the fracturing between the Silicon Valley, part of this strange coalition and the nativist base, and Vivek clearly, clearly is somebody who will give on culture to get what he actually wants, much like all of these Silicon Valley guys.”
“But this take that he tweeted about was the thing he clearly felt most sincerely,” Torre added. “He resents American culture in this way, he resents the base in this way, and for that crime, he is going to go run for governor in Ohio instead. He’s going to be the first part of DOGE to be fired, this being the commission devoted to firing people.”
When he took the presidential oath of office earlier this afternoon, Rapist-in-Chief Donald Trump didn’t place his hand on the two Bibles being held by his wife, Melania.
Granted, the Constitution doesn’t say a president has to swear on the Bible or any other religious tome, but EVERY PRESIDENT in U.S. history has done so.
Here’s the official Associated Press photo of Trump being sworn in, which was shared by former Republican National Committee chairman and current MSNBC host Michael Steele.
If not like it would have been sincere under any circumstances. And I wish people would stop making the mistake of thinking he's some kind of christian.
During a pre-inauguration rally Sunday evening in Washington, D.C., Felon-in-Chief Donald Trump made some comments about Twitter CEO Elon Musk and “vote-counting computers” that immediately touched off suggestions Trump and Musk may have used fraud to steal the 2024 presidential election.
Trump told supporters at the rally, “He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.”
“He journeyed to Pennsylvania where he spent a month-and-a-half campaigning for me in Pennsylvania and he’s a popular guy,” Trump added. “He was very effective… Thank you to Elon.”
Trump on Elon Musk: "He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide." pic.twitter.com/MJdfUVhFsT
Pennsylvania was one of the key battleground states that helped Trump defeat Vice President Kamala Harris even though some of the late polling in the state showed Harris with a two to three-point lead on the day of the election.
Trump also won in key states such as Georgia, Michigan, and North Carolina, giving him an electoral vote victory.
But back to those Sunday remarks from Trump. Could they be a slip of the tongue by Donald that he and Musk rigged the voting tabulations and stole the election? That’s certainly what many on social media thought.
Pennsylvania was the key battleground state. Is Trump saying Musk rigged the election here? Any denials?
